Nipype: A flexible, lightweight and extensible neuroimaging data processing framework in Python

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gorgolewski, Krzysztof ^a   Burns, Christopher D ^b   Madison, Cindee ^b   Clark, Dav ^b   Halchenko, Yaroslav O ^c   Waskom, Michael L ^d,e   Ghosh, Satrajit S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data processing; Neuroimaging; Pipeline; Python; Reproducible research; Workflow

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LEARNING CURVE; MACHINE; NEUROIMAGING; PHILOSOPHY; PIPELINE; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84994026358     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2011.00013     Document Type: Article

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